That’d be me!
The trip is all booked and paid for. I cancelled my birthday leave today and submitted a new leave request. Sigh. I haven’t worked on my birthday for about the last four years I think. But it’ll be worth it when I’m in New Zealand two weeks later.
It’s going to be strange to travel with people. I hope to god they’re not nervous flyers because then I’ll just have to laugh at them.
I got an email from the company I bought my travel insurance for my trip in September, offering me 10% off another policy. It’s not a huge saving ($8) but it’s better than nothing.
I should be super excited about this trip seeing it’s only three months away but I’m not. I had already planned everything for my first trip but this time the only thing I’ve organised is my flights to L.A. I dunno… I shouldn’t be leaving the planning to the last minute like this. I have flights to and from Seattle to buy but I’m finding it very hard to get motivated to organise anything. I’ve already decided to do a bus trip from L.A to the Bay Area to visit Steve and that’s going to take a whole day but I still haven’t arranged anything with that either. However, I don’t know if I actually can.
Zero motivation to do anything. Don’t know what’s wrong with me. Sigh.
I have an itinerary!!
How exciting is that? The planning has already commenced. Guess I’m getting no xmas presents this year. But I’m fine with that – money is all good (preferably American). The funny thing is that the flights are the same as the ones I was on for Baltimore. Heh.
I can’t wait. It’s going to come around so quickly this time. I’m putting in my leave request tomorrow.
*shakes head* I can’t believe I’m doing this but it’s going to be awesome!
I told myself I wasn’t going to do this but I’ve decided to go to Seattle next year for the Emerald City ComicCon. It’s the location for next year’s forum meet and it was killing me to think I wouldn’t be there. So I decided I should be there. Got enough money on my credit card to buy flights to Los Angeles and I’ve found flights that are on sale so why the hell not?
I’ve decided I’d rather have the debt and the brilliant experience I know it’ll be than to stay here and regret not going. Debts can be repaid, experiences can’t be lived once the time passed.
It’s felt like something has been missing since I got back. I’ve had nothing to look forward to and plan for. I didn’t realise how much I was looking forward to it and how much I did think about it. Now I know. The whole traveling experience is so fantastic I wish I could do it more often. I thought I’d be all blase and flippant about it but it really has changed my perception of… everything really.
So yeah, once more I’m off. It’s going to be brilliant. I can’t wait to see Seattle and all my friends.
